Refreshing!
Asked to refresh the branding of Gleneagles Water, Jim Greig and I developed a new identity, marketing campaign and a range of bottles that included a new sports bottle, a mass market bottle and an...
Premier solution?
On 2 June 1998, the brief to design a corporate identity for the newly-formed Scottish Premier League landed on my desk. However, it was to be a pitch – a football pitch? – against other...
Crackin’ Cracow
A direct flight from Edinburgh took us into Cracow on a wet Saturday night in early February, but it was actually milder there than the bleak Scottish weather we were having at home. Snow on...
Got it taped
This was one of these logos that, once I’d sketched the idea, I immediately thought that I’d seen it before or, even worse, that it was already used by one of Ultratape’s competitors....
Trulli Puglia!
Truly worth seeing! Puglia, the heel of the Italian boot, is home to thousands of curious trulli houses and is the area that produces the largest amounts of olive oil and wine in Italy. So...
What’s it called?
Around the Boardroom table in the late 1980s, we sat for hours developing our campaign for Cumbernauld Development Corporation. Robert Beedham summed up that what we have is a place where many...
2009 Awards finalist
The corporate identity and marketing programme for Fraser Gallery, St Andrews, earned a top three place in the Best Design Innovation category of the 2009 Creativefife Creative Industries Awards...
www.tom-gourdiesgallery.co.uk
Although he subsequently achieved international recognition as a calligrapher, lecturer, and author of books on the teaching of handwriting, Tom Gourdie was also an accomplished artist. To see a wide...
How to write right
I think I'm lucky. No, I know I'm lucky. In art class, I was taught handwriting by Tom Gourdie MBE during my time at Kirkcaldy High School. As well as being an accomplished artist, Tom taught...
We are sailing!
It's not every day that you get asked to design an identity that's going to feature on the side of a ferry! So I was chuffed when the opportunity arose to brand the newly-formed NorthLink Ferries. The...